From: "Adam Mercer" <ramercer@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: files missing after converting a cvs repository to git
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:58:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <799406d60810070858peb97434p9c9fb0c1128dc8e9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EB3E06.70100@alum.mit.edu>
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 05:46, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>> cvs2svn is apparently quite good at getting even the weirdest history
>>> right. Perhaps you can try that and then running "git svn" on the
>>> resulting svn repo?
>>
>> cvs2svn has git output now (I think it is actually fast-import output)
>
> Correct. See http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html for more info. I
> suggest using the trunk version of cvs2svn for conversions to git.
>
> Please note, however, that cvs2svn can only handle one-time conversions
> (i.e., not tracking a live CVS repository incrementally).
Thanks, I'll look into this for creating the final git repos.
Cheers
Adam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-07 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-06 22:02 files missing after converting a cvs repository to git Adam Mercer
2008-10-07 6:08 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-07 10:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-07 10:46 ` Michael Haggerty
2008-10-07 15:58 ` Adam Mercer [this message]
2008-10-07 15:55 ` Adam Mercer
2008-10-08 6:16 ` Andreas Ericsson
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